Why Should You Use PNG Image Format in Your Web Design?

The advanatges of incorporating PNG images in website creation over various other file types such as GIF and JPEG; the image format helps to make really amazing and wonderful icons that will prove alluring to your consumers.

The PNG image format was introduced quite a while back; it was put forth in the marketlfor consumers in 1995/96 to make up for the shortcomings of the the common GIF file type. However, it failed to create ripples because the the browsers of the time were not designed to support the progrresiveLstate of the art offerings of PNG so web designers and developers had to incorporate it sparingly. One of the major hurdles faced by PNG was with Microsoft's Internet Explorer which was one of the most popular browsers of that period; IE had little or no space for PNG support which equated to the fact that the format could only be used in the most restricted way. But went through a change after the availability of IE7; this new offeringbrowser from Microsoft has aided in increasing the usability of PNGs. So lets take a look at three reasons why PNG is one of the best image formats in the market today:

You will be able to create see through images or a property known as alpha transparency: When you analyze the features of GIF and PNG, you will see that one of the major differences is that you you will be restricted to saving a specific color in a transparent format through GIF which means that you can get the color whether opaque or transparent with just transparency in between with the use of PNG, you get adistinct advantage; because the format supports semi transparent pixels. With this attaribute, you can save a PNG file with a soft drop shadow and then fuse it with a background that suits your taste. Through this feature you will be able to use an image as a watermark or a gradient background. The format allows for the glardual fading ofhues from completely opaque to transparent, and hence you will be able to view the webpage underneath

They lookfantastic: Apart from the fact, that you get amazing flexibility wit PNG images ; there are several a myriad of other benefit to incorporating this format. For instance, if you choose a JPG image, you lose a part of the data from the original file whenever the file is saved, so in time, you will be able to view a distinct deterioration in the quality of the pictures. Although, this concern has now been sortedbeen resolved in in the file type and you can store the pictures without sacrificing any data, GIF has a limited color palette of 256, which makes it quite useless if you have to store a picture. However, with PNG, you could get the best attributes of both these formats; you will have access to a a complete color display like the one used in JPEG format and it also}{supports| provides|offers} managed color palette {like|a la| as seen in} GIF files. {Also|At the same time|Another advantage is that} the {compression|storage} of the {file|image|picture} is {lossless|sans loss|without loss} so the {image|picture|photograph} {stays put|stays as it is|does not change} {regardless of how many time you save it|despite innumerable times of saving the file|even if you save the file several times}.

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